strip

Meaning

1. A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
2. A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
3. A comic strip.
4. A landing strip.
5. A strip steak.
6. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
7. The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
8. The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
9. A trough for washing ore.
10. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
11. A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
12. An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
13. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
14. To take off clothing.
15. To perform a striptease.
16. To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
17. To remove cargo from (a container).
18. To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
19. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
20. To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
21. To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
22. To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
23. To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
24. To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
25. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
26. Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
27. Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”).
28. Ellipsis of Vegas Strip or Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
29. Ellipsis of Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
30. Ellipsis of Strip District, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Etymology / origin

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

Related words

Descendant words

• strip(Dutch) (der)
• strippen(German) (bor)
• ストリップ(Japanese) (bor)
• strippe(Norwegian Bokmål) (der)
• strip(Serbo-Croatian) (bor)
• стрип(Serbo-Croatian) (bor)

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